Last week, I hosted The Perl and Raku Conference (TPRC) 2023 in Toronto, Canada. We had under a hundred attendees, and we had a three day schedule of sessions with three tracks. There was also a hackathon Monday and Friday, and Dave Rolsky put on a one day course in Go on the Friday.

I've been going to these conferences on and off for about twenty years (2000, 2001, 2002, 2012, 2019 and 2022), so I had a pretty good idea how they work. Putting on my own conference was eye-opening, but what really moved me was the impressive number of volunteers that helped out. There were just people who didn't know much about Perl who came out, but I also had speakers jump in to help with A/V setup and all kinds of other details like making up badges. It was fabulous.

Our keynote speaker was Curtis Poe (Ovid) who talked about Cor, the new object layer that's an experimental feature in Perl 5.38 (just released). We also had Paul Evans (leonerd, the current pumpking) who gave a talk about what was new in this new version of Perl. The talks, as well as a pile of Lightning Talks are in the process of being edited together and uploaded to Youtube. And next year's conference is already planned for Las Vegas, Nevada in June, 2024.

Yeah, Perl's an old language. But it's still alive and well. :)

Alex / talexb / Toronto

Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.

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